How To: Import contacts from Gmail into Outlook

A friend of mine asked me today how he can import his contacts from Gmail into Outlook and I have decided to create this small tutorial.

Export your Gmail contacts

First we will need to export our Gmail contacts. Just log into your Gmail account, select the Contacts tab, choose “Select: All” or individual if you wish to export only certain contacts then press “Export”, choose the Outlook’s CSV format and select a location within your computer or local media to save the file.

Import the contacts into Outlook

Using the new exported file from Gmail, we will import those contacts within Outlook. Press the “File” menu, click on the “Import and Export” option and from the wizard, select “Import from another program or file”, press “Next”, then choose “Comma Separated Values (DOS)” and then browse for the recent exported CSV file. You will be prompted to select the location or folder for the contacts, choose “Contacts”(or any folder you want) and that’s it. Your contacts are now importan from Gmail into Outlook easy and fast.